http://savethesounds.info/
"The Museum Of Endangered Sounds is owned and operated by me, Brendan Chilcutt
(handle:
kidpeleus99@aol.com).
I launched the site in January of 2012 as a way to preserve the sounds made
famous by my favorite old technologies and electronics equipment. For instance,
the textured rattle and hum of a VHS tape being sucked into the womb of a 1983
JVC HR-7100 VCR. As you probably know, it's a wonderfully complex sound, subtle
yet unfiltered. But, as streaming playback becomes more common in the US, and
as people in developing nations like Canada and the UK get brought up to DVD
players, it's likely that the world will have seen and heard the last of older
machines like the HR-7100. And as new products come to market, we stand to lose
much more than VCRs.
Imagine a world where we never again hear the symphonic startup of a Windows 95
machine. Imagine generations of children unacquainted with the chattering of
angels lodged deep within the recesses of an old cathode ray tube TV. And when
the entire world has adopted devices with sleek, silent touch interfaces, where
will we turn for the sound of fingers striking QWERTY keypads? Tell me that.
And tell me: Who will play my GameBoy when I'm gone?
These questions and more led me to the undertaking that is The Museum Of
Endangered Sounds."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
